Graduation Exercises of 015-7-43 Motor Transport Officers' Operations and Maintenance Course February 22 - April 17, 1943
Holabird Ordnance Depot, Baltimore MD: Ordnance Automotive School Holabird Ordnance Depot, 1943. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Single sheet, format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Rare surviving copy of a WWII military training graduation program. The sheet has been folded in half. The front side is the event program. The graduation took place in Classroom # 1 on Saturday April 17, 1943. There was an Invocation, Introductory Remarks by Lt. Col. C. E. Kelly, Ordnance Department, Assistant Commandant. Then there was a Graduation Address by General H. J. Lawes, Ordnance Department Commandant. This was followed by Presentation of Diploma and then a Benediction. The other side has a list of graduates, which included 1 Captain, 6 First Lieutenants, and 17 Second Lieutenants. Except for one member of the Infantry, the graduates were either members of the Corps of Engineers or the Coast Artillery Corps. Among the graduates were:Lloyd Griffith, CAC; Ramon Fobes, CAC; George Lenoir, CAC; Robert Lyon, CAC; Frederick Randolph, CAC; James Rhodes, CAC; Lawrence Robinson, CAC; Joseph Ansel, CE; Cornelius Butner, CE; William Clever CE; Harold Crawley, CE; Robert Dolan, CE; Edward Doyle, CE; James Fickes, CE; Arvid Holderson, CE; Gregory Kraus, CE; Chester Lamb, CE; Howard Morrison, CE; Harold O'Connell, CAC; Lloyd Rinehard, CE; Edward Smith, CE; Richard Snyder, CAC, Alfred Turney, CE; and Samuel Walker, Inf. More